Consider a five-workstation, worker-paced line, with five manual tasks to be performed before the product is completed, as diagrammed below:

The times shown are the times, in minutes, that it takes one worker to perform that task for one unit of product. This line is staffed with six workers, two of whom are assigned to Workstation D. For the next three questions, assume that each of the Tasks A through E are never split among multiple workers. Thus, the two workers doing Task D work on every other unit, each doing all of Task D on the particular unit on which he or she is working. (Assume there is ample equipment so that all workers can perform their tasks). What is the lines capacity in 8 hours day?

1 Worker 1 Worker 1 Worker 2 Worker 1 Worker AV-B VOVDVE . E 6 Min. 9 Min. 12 Min. 15 Min. 9 Min